Release Date: 6/12/19 – 6/16/19; American Black Film Festival
Genre: Drama
Rating: NR
Director/Writer: Charles Murray
Studio(s): Ohio Street Pictures
Running Time: 105 mins.
Cast: Dorian Missick, Simone Missick, Michael Beach, Terrell Tilford, Victoria Platt, Omar Epps.
Story: After a journalist’s cousin commits suicide, he investigates what caused her to take her life and the people he believes are responsible. Source: Blackfilm.com.
Tag: Simone Missick
Jinn
Release Date: 2017
Genre: Drama
Rating: NR
Director: Nijla Mumin
Studio(s): Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, Morgan’s Mark,
Sweet Potato Pie Productions
Running Time: 91 mins.
Cast: Simone Missick (Jade), Zoe Renee (Summer), Hisham Tawfiq (Imam Khalid), Kelvin Harrison, Jr. (Tahir), Dorian Missick (David).
Story: Summer is a 17-year old carefree black girl, whose world is turned upside down when her mother, a popular meteorologist named Jade, abruptly converts to Islam and becomes a different person, prompting Summer to reevaluate her identity. But, while Summer initially resists Islam, she eventually becomes drawn to its teachings, particularly around the “Jinn,” supernatural beings who occupy a parallel world and have free will, like humans. Summer soon realizes that the religion is more complex than she thought, and that people interpret it in different ways. Yet, Summer’s need to be free and untethered to any one way of being clashes with her mother’s strict interpretation of the faith and causes a growing rift between them.
When Summer meets Tahir, a fellow Muslim classmate who attends the same masjid, she is further drawn to the religion and especially to his parents’ fluid, freeing practice of it. As Summer and Tahir build a connection based on laughter, curiosity, and beef pepperoni, a budding sexual attraction ignites, causing a major conflict between physical desire and piety. Source(s): Official site – jinnfilm.com; sxsw.com.
Trailer:
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